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ICC WorldTwenty20: Kohli brilliant but others have to step up: Dhoni
MOHALI: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was lavish in his praise for the brilliant Virat Kohli but had a word
Read moreICC World Twenty20: All set for fierce mind game
MOHALI: So. India stares another do-or-die situation. Third one in a row. It’s just out of a virtual life-taking one-run,
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Dhoni’s stand man
MOHALI: Ram Rabu, all of 30, has been busy at work – following his idol MS Dhoni to all parts
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Life returns
India beat Pak by 6 wickets in a gritty, incredible chase KOLKATA: Writing an obituary for India and history for Pakistan
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Garden Talk
Singing sensation AB The loudest cheer went for Amitabh Bachchan’s baritone singing of the national anthem with close to 60000
Read moreICC World Twenty20: 7:30PM – The Hunger Game
Cornered India meet Pakistan in high-octane, must-win clash KOLKATA: Irony of ironies. It’s an India-Pak match. In a World Cup.
Read moreICC World Twenty 20: From the ropes
KOLKATA: Legendary gesture The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) has planned big for the India-Pak match. For starters, they would be
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Border rivalry more than cricket: Ashwin
KOLKATA: As psychological thrillers go in cricket, there can’t be a bigger one than this, bigger than the Ashes, bigger
Read moreICC World Twenty20: India practice hard and long
KOLKATA: India may have taken it easy at the nets on Thursday with practice being optional and a chunk of
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Lessons from Nagpur
NAGPUR: Indians are traditionally known to be good navigators of spin so it was shocking to see how they got
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Warrior from North districts
NAGPUR: Sitting gingerly on the dais, addressing his first major Press conference after decimating India, Mitchell Santner looked a little
Read moreICC World Twenty20: India’s Stupor 10!
Indian batters fall like ninepins, lose first Super 10 match to NZ despite modest scoreline of 126 NAGPUR: India, the
Read moreICC World Twenty20: From the ropes
Jay walker vs Tendulkar Nagpur may be simmering at 38 degrees but the city is surrounded by forested areas, at
Read moreICC World Twenty20: India set for a Kiwi tasting
Will it be yesterday once more, rather 2007 yet again for India at these T20 Worlds? Well, it’s been a
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Shami sweats it out
Mohammad Shami dominated the nets at VCA Stadium in Nagpur on Monday, bowling consistently for over an hour under the
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Itni chuppi kyon?
This city has a lot of noise but very little of that belongs to cricket. Considering that there’s a World
Read moreICC World Twenty20: India set for a Kiwi tasting
Will it be yesterday once more, rather 2007 yet again for India at these T20 Worlds? Well, it’s been a
Read moreICC World Twenty20: Tackle pressure like a challenge
Star India batsman Virat Kohli was a picture of confidence and diffidence on eve of India’s match against New Zealand,
Read moreThe Program: A Heartbreak call Lance
Cast : Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace Rated: 7/10 This week it is all about Hollywood
Read moreTriple 9: Too much to explain
Cast : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie & Kate Winslet Rated: 5/10 Crime, mafia, dirty cops and a 999
Read moreRace: This one is an achiever
Cast : Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton Rated: 8/10 In those 10 seconds, it is not about
Read moreRace: This one is an achiever
Race Cast : Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton Rated: 8/10 In those 10 seconds, it is not
Read moreLondon has fallen
Cast: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett Rated: 6/10 All conspiracy theory enthusiasts — here’s your bread and butter and
Read moreJai Gangaajal: Prakash Jha with favourite subject
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Prakash Jha, Manav Kaul, Rahul Bhat, Murli Sharma Rated: 7/10 Prakash Jha is back — and with his favourite
Read moreTere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive
Cast: Manish Paul, Sikander Kher, Piyush Mishra Rated: 5.5/10 Is it anywhere near the original? Naa… Not a patch on it. Is it
Read moreGods of Egypt: Splashy fantasy
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Courtney Eaton, Rufus Sewell, Gerard Butler Rated: 6/10 This big canvas fantasy adventure, pegged on Egyptian folklore
Read moreCarol: Complex love
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy Rated: 7.5/10 Classified as a love story, this same-sex tag of a romance
Read moreThe Revenant: Back from the dead from Oscar
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Lucas Haas Rated: 7/10 It’s a dark, depressing and mostly frigid environment
Read morePride and prejudice and zombies: Classic case of outrage
Cast: Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Matt Smith, Charles Dance Rated: 6/10 For one, this a brave
Read moreSpotlight: A thorough investigation
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton Rated: 7/10 When a group of investigative journalists of the Boston Globe get down to probing
Read moreNeerja: Sonam is Neerja to the core
Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Shekhar Ravjiani, Shabana Azmi Rated: 8/10 She died 30 years ago and in extremely frightful circumstances. Returned from
Read moreLoveshhuda
Cast: Girish Kumar, Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Naveen Kasturia Rated: 4.5/10 Boy meets girl on his bachelor’s party night. Of course there
Read moreFitoor : A slow burner
Cast: Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Tabu, Aditi Rao Hydari, Rahul Bhat, Lara Dutta, Ajay Devgn Rated: 6/10 This one comes
Read moreDeadpool: The funny Marvel guy
Deadpool Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Gina Carano, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller Rated: 6.5/10 Finally, Marvel Comic’s funny mutant Deadpool gets his very own
Read moreThe Finest Hours: Small but happening
Cast: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana Rated: 7/10 It’s 1952 and it’s freezing. The sea is abnormally volatile and
Read moreThe Choice
Cast: Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Maggie Grace, Alexandra Daddario, Tom Welling, Tom Wilkinson Rated: 5/10 After a long, long time a
Read moreGhayal Once Again: Out of sync but sincere
Cast: Sunny Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Om Puri, Tisca Chopra, Aanchal Munjal Rated: 5/10 Ghayal …. once again…. because it
Read moreSaala Khadoos: A riveting show
CAST: Madhavan & Ritika Singh RATED: 7/10 She’s a Chennai ki machhli wali and he is Delhi ka out of run boxing coach. She
Read moreAsterix the mansions of the gods: They have all the gall !
ASTERIX THE MANSIONS OF THE GODS CAST: Roger Carel, Guillaume Briat, Lionnel Astier, Serge Papagalli and Florence Foresti RATED: 7/10 Those ones
Read moreAirlift: Akshay Kumar stars in slow gripper
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur Rated: 7.5/10 True stories are rarely made, and made well, in Bollywood though the trend has
Read moreKya Kool Hain Hum 3
Cast: Tushar Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani, Mandana Karimi Rated: 1/10 This one needs to be rushed to Sablok Clinic for correctional interventions. For,
Read moreThe 5th Wave
Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Liev Shreiber, Maika Monroe Rated: 6/10 Many would find this alien science fiction too slow
Read moreThe Danish Girl
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts Rated: 6/10 It is a sensitive film on an uneasy subject — a sex
Read moreThe Hateful Eight
Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh Rated: 6.5/10 When with Quentin Tarantino, you’ve got to be in the
Read moreStar Wars: The Force Awakens
Cast : Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac Rated: 7/10 From 1977 to
Read morePoint Break
Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Delroy Lindo and Ray Winstone Rated: 5/10 Adrenalinewallahs, get set. There’s non-stop action here —
Read moreBajirao Mastani
Cast : Ranveer Singh, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Mahesh Manjrekar, Tanvi Azmi, Sanjay Mishra Rated : 7/10 History. A bit muddled. But
Read moreThe Good Dinosaur
Cast (voice over): Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Sam Elliott, Anna Paquin, AJ Buckley, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Steve Zahn Rated
Read moreHate Story 3
Cast : Sharman Joshi, Zarine Khan, Karan Singh Grover, Daisy Shah Rated : 5/10 Some will love to hate
Read moreThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman Rated: 6/10 A befitting finale,
Read morePrem Ratan Dhan Payo
Cast: Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Anupam Kher Rated: 5/10 Sooraj Barjatya, not one but two Salman Khans, the larger
Read moreRock the Kasbah
Cast: Bill Murray, Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride, Scott Caan, Bruce Willis Rated: 4/10 Well, Afghanistan is a breeding ground for
Read moreThe last witch hunter
Cast: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Israel Baldecañas, Michael Caine Rated: 4/10 It looks like Van Diesel has had enough of
Read morePyaar Ka Punchnama 2
Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha, Sonalli Sehgall, Ishita Sharma, Omkar Kapoor, Sunny Singh,Rumana Molla Rated: 6/10 The sequel follows the
Read moreCrimson Peak
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Beaver Rated: 5/10 This much touted film, a Gothic story
Read moreBridge of Spies
Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda Rated: 8/10 Tom Hanks is the centrepiece of this film. So
Read moreWedding Pullav
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Anushka Ranjan, Diganth Manchale Rated: 4/10 The film is not bad but you are still constrained to
Read moreJazbaa: Irrfan in driving seat of Aish’s vehicle
Jazbaa Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Irrfan Khan, Shabana Azmi, Jackie Shroff Rated: 7/10 Aishwarya Rai’s comeback movie, after her long hiatus due to
Read moreFAT CHANCE OF CURE
As the diabesity epidemic in India gobbles up the population at a rocket rate, MEENAKSHI RAO looks at the efficacy of surgical
Read moreSicario: Of drugs & blood trails
Sicario Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber Rated: 5/10 You are told at the very beginning that Sicario
Read moreThe Walk: Go for those oh-so-crazy 25 minutes
The walk Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale Rated: 8/10 When a 25-year-old French juggler Phillipe Petit
Read moreSingh is Bliing: Hyperactive kitsch rolls in
singh is bliing Cast: Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Lara Dutta, Kay Kay Menon Rated: 4/10 Nonsense gets a new, over-the-top
Read moreThe Martian: Thrills are from Mars
Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels Rated: 7.5/10 Hope flutters eternal in human breast and under director
Read moreTalvar: Brilliant film you may differ with
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Sharma Rated: 8.5/10 Depending on which side you are seeing it
Read moreThe Intern: De Niro stars in a gem
The Intern cast: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Adam DeVine Rated: 7/10 When Nancy Mayers makes a movie
Read moreKis Kisko Pyaar Karoon: A Kapil of comic patches
Cast: Kapil Sharma, Arbaaz Khan, Manjari Phadnis, Elli Avram, Simran Kaur Mundi, Varun Sharma Rated: 5/10 Well, if I was
Read moreCalendar Girls: Same difference
Cast: Akanksha Puri, Avani Modi, Kyra Dutt, Ruhi Singh, Satarupa Pyne Rated: 5/10 You’ve seen Fashion, you’ve seen them all, or
Read moreShe is funny that way
Cast: Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans Rated: 5.5/10 It’s been a long time since a light, fluffy
Read moreHitman: Agent 47: HITMAN’S BACK WITH ACTION
Cast: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciarán Hinds Rated: 5.5/10 Hitman’s back and this time with Agent 47 and with a
Read moreThe Transporter Refueled: Where is Mr Statham?
Cast: Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson, Loan Chabanol, Gabriella Wright Rated: 4.5/10 Hardly refuelled! Without the deadpan humour of Jason Statham, and his
Read moreWelcome Back: Not a patch
Cast: Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Shruti Haasan, Paresh Rawal, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia Rated: 5/10 Welcome back! Not really guys
Read moreRicki & the Flash: Streep all the way
Cast: Meryl Streep Rated: 6.5/10 On stage Ricci was magic. An unhindered voice of rock & roll. A diva in
Read morePhantom: Slow for a thriller
Cast: Saif Ali Khan & Katrina Kaif Rated: 5/10 26/11 capers were always the thing to do in
Read moreShaun the sheep: Alluring for adults too
Staring: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili Rated: 6/10 It is not your regular kind of Hollywood animation. It is
Read moreGour Hari Dastaan: The Freedom File
Staring: Vinay Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Ranvir Shorey, Divya Dutta Rated: 6/10 How could a real life freedom fighter’s
Read moreBrothers: Lacks the punch
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez, Jackie Shroff Rated: 5/10 Hollywood action with Bollywood emotions seldom go well and Brothers
Read moreJaanisaar: Visual treat without soul
Staring: Pernia Quereshi, Imran Abbas, Muzaffar Ali, Carl Wharton, Dilip Tahil & Beena Kak. Rated: 4.5/10 First and foremost: This film
Read moreBangistan: An apt satire
Staring: Ritesh Deshmukh, Pulkit Sharma, Tom Alter, Jacquiline Fernandes & others Rated: 5/10 The need for secularism and the stupidity of
Read moreMission impossible: Rogue nation — Ethan Hunt back with bang
Staring: Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris, Jeremy Reyner & Rebecca Ferguson Rated: 8/10 Last time Ethan Hunt had your jaw
Read moreWINE, ART, WILDRENESS & WOW NELSON
Nowhere in the world will you find, within a short distance, three spectacular national parks, glistening golden beaches and turquoise
Read moreSouthPaw: WHY? HOW COME?
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Rachel McAdams Rated: 5/10 Hollywood content from the boxing ring have a familiar ring to them. An
Read moreThe vatican tapes: Not as scary as you would think
Starring: Kathleen Robertson, Michael Peña, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, John Patrick Amedori Rated: 4.5/10 The Vatican Tapes come riding on heavy repute —
Read morePixels: Pixelating an experience
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan Rated: 5.5/10 Pixels is an imaginary wonder but it comes sans a soul. But gamers,
Read moreDrishyam: A complete gripper
Starring: Ajay Devgn, Shriya Saran, Tabu, Rajat Kapoor, Ishita Dutta, Prathamesh Parab Rated: 8/10 First in Malayalam, then in Tamil and now
Read moreAnt-man: Small is big
Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Douglas Rated: 5.5/10 This is no Avengers though there is a
Read moreMasaan: Real slice of life
Starring: Richa Chadda, Vicky Kaushal, Sanjay Mishra Rated: 8/10 This is no fun movie about the Banaras which we have seen in
Read moreMr holmes: The new but old Sherlock
Starring:Sir Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada, Milo Parker Rated:7/10 This is not the Sherlock Holmes you may have grown
Read moreWORLD LEADER IN THREATENED SPECIES PROTECTION’
New Zealand’s Bird Conservation story is a global talk point. Helmed by its Department of Conservation and pegged on a
Read moreNew Zealand: Chirp around the silence
In this pristine land of forests that New Zealand is, you would have thought that the hum of birds would
Read moreBajrangi Bhaijaan: Un-Sallu but happening
Staring: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Harshaali Malhotra, Om Puri, Sharat Saxena Rated: 6/10 Here comes aman ki asha, Sallu bhai
Read moreEpic centre of Middle Earth
MEENAKSHI RAO stepped into the southern hemisphere’s most imaginative spot when she visited the Weta Cave Workshop at Wellington where,
Read moreI Love NY: A romance sans moments
Starring: Sunny Deol, Kangana Ranaut, Manoj Joshi, Reema Lagoo, Prem Chopra Rated: 4/10 You can understand why Kangana Ranaut threw a fit
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